Non-refillable bottle.



B. STONE.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3.1914.

1 1 53,725 Patented Sept. 14, 1915.

avwewcoz WWW 367276772550726,

BERTRAM STONE, OF WEST NEW BRIGHTON, NENV YDRK.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 14, 1915.

Application filed July 3, 1914. Serial-No. 848,877.

Toall whom it may concern Be it known that I, BERTRAM STONE, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at vVest New Brighton, in the county of Richmond and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to bottles, and more particularly to bottles of the non-refillable type, and has for an object to provide a bottle which cannot be conveniently refilled when the original contents have once been withdrawn therefrom and which is constructed so that it will be found impracticable for the retailer or consumer to attempt to refill the bottle with an inferior or spurious fluid after the original contents have been removed from the'bottle.

The invention contemplates, among other features, the provision of a bottle having I its parts so arranged and constructed that the bottle cannot be refilled by the known processes of sweating or pressure and which are ofttimes unsuccessfully attempted by immersing the bottle in water, inverting the same or arranging the bottle in a position whereby it is attempted to force or sweat a spurious or inferior fluid; into the bottle through the usual neck thereof.

My bottle consists, essentially, of a body and a neck and which parts are to be connected at a point juxtapositionally to a suitable valve movably carried on the body and which prevents the refilling of the bottle through the neck after the body and neck have been connected and secured together as mentioned, the said valve, however, being so arranged that it will not prevent the free outflow of fluid from the bottle.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view taken through. the bottle, showing the same in an upright position, with the valve closed; Fig. 2 is a similar View, with the bottle tilted and showing the valve open; Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1; Fig. i is a perspective view of the baffle member; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view ofv the seat.

Referring more particularly to the views,

I provide a bottle body 10 and a neck 11, said neck 11 being adapted for connection with the bottle body 10 and wherefore the bottle body 10 is preferably provided with a flat top or upper edge 12 upon which the neck is adapted to seat, the bottle body 10 at its upper end being provided with an annular square groove 13 and the neck 11 at its lower end being provided with a similar annular groove 1%, a suitable securing member 15 in the nature of a metallic collar or sleeve belng arranged to encircle the bottle body 10 and neck 11 at their juncture and adapted to have portions thereof pressed into the grooves 13 and 14 to rigidly secure the bottle body and neck together.

Hhe inner faceof the neck is provided with a plurality of grooves or threads 16 and a baflie 17 has an exterior portion 18 thereof provided with threads I 19 which, threaded into the groove 16, will secure the baffle within the neck. The battle is formed of an integral piece of glass or some other suitable substance and provides an upper chamber 20 and a lower chamber .21, with v suitable passages 22 passing from the chamber 21 outwardly toward the wall of the neck to communicate with a space between the lower portion of the baflle and the wall of the neclnsi'milar passages 23 being formed to extend from the upper chamber 20 to the space between the baflle and the neck, with a disk 2% interposed between and forming the passages 20 and 21 and the passages and 23. It will be readily seen that with a bafie of this kind it will be impossible for a person to insert a wire in the neck of the bottle and tamper with a valve 25 arranged upon a valve seat 26 sealed or otherwise rigidly secured in the upper end of the bottle body 10 and having a portion thereof projecting beyond the top edge of the bottle body to extend into the lower portion of the neck 11 when the neck is applied to the bottle body.

The seat 26 is preferably formed of glass to provide a chamber 27 which, with the chamber 21, forms the valve chamber and which has communication with the interior of the bottle body to a passage 28 in the valve seat. Projections 29 are arranged to project inwardly from the wall of the valve seat and guide the valve into closed position, and similarly, projections 30 extend from the lower portion of the bafl'le into the valve chamber and are formed with converging walls, thereby providing inclined edges 31-. The valve consists, more particularly, of a spherical'body 32, a shank 33 depending from the body 32 and a weight 34 preferablyof an elongated ball-like c0nstruction, said body 32 being adapted to lie in the valve chamber, with the shank passing through the passage 38 and the weight 34: lying within the bottle body.

Now assuming that the neck has been placed upon the bottle body as mentioned, after the bottle body has been filled with fluid and the valve has been placed upon the seat as stated heretofore, it will be seen. that when the bottle is in an upright position the body 32 of the valve, seating upon the valve seat, will close the passage v2S whereas when the bottle body is tilted as shown, the weight 34: will advance the body 32 to move the same out of engagement with the valve seat and into abutting engagement With the lower portion of the baiile, the

' edges 31 of the projection 30 of the bafiie 'being engaged by the body 33 to limit its upward movement and position the same so that the fluid can flow through the passage 28 into the valve chamber and thence outwardly through the passages 22 and inwardly through the passages 23 into the upper chamber 20, from which the fluid will flow outwardly through the neck.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the baffle limits the opening movement of the valve; that the seat provides for seating the valve when the bottle is in upright position so as to prevent the forcing of fluid into the bottle through the neck; that the baiile will prevent the insertion of a wire into the neck of the bottle for the purpose of tampering with the valve and that the valve seat, the valve and baffle can be readily arranged on the body and neck, respectively, prior to placing the neck upon the body and securing the same securing member or collar 15.

Although I haveshown a specific con-' by the struction of my invention, it will be understood that slight changes can be made without departing from the wspirit'of the invention and that. the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claim. 7

Having thus described my invention I claim: a r

In a non-refillable bottle, a-bottle body having a neck, a seat member in the neck and providing a valve chamber, a ball valve movable in said chamber and normally-interrupting communication between thebottle body and the valve chamber, a shank onthe 7 ball valve, a weight on the shank, and a tubular member threaded in theneck and having a lower portlon forming a part of thence out through the mouth of'the bottle body.

Intestimony whereof I aiii r my signature 7 V in presence of two witnesses. V V

V BERTRAM STONE. lVitnesses: 7 i

F. A. Hos'rnR, E. EDMONSTON, Jr. 1

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner 'of' Patents, 7 Washington, D. G. r a a 7 

